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Philippines Investigating 3 Politician Deaths Allegedly From Stem Cells in Germany

February 1, 2021 / By / 10 Comments

The Philippines Medical Association (PMA) is reportedly (article from ABS-CBN News) investigating the recent deaths of 3 prominent politicians due to stem cell therapies via stem cell tourism in Germany at an as yet unidentified clinic. The names of the politicians are unknown, but strangely enough today there’s another separate article on stem cells from the Philippine …

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Intellicell Inspected By FDA: What Does It Mean?

February 1, 2021 / By / 3 Comments

IntelliCell (SVFC) is a stem cell company that does cosmetic stem cell procedures. They’ve had a number of challenges of late including an FDA warning letter about a year ago and apparent financial issues manifesting in lawsuits. Now the company itself, perhaps trying to get ahead of the news, issued a press release (PR) saying they …

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Moriguchi 2.0: more papers, more claims, and a new mysterious co-author

February 1, 2021 / By / 2 Comments

Remember Hisashi Moriguchi? He’s the fellow who claimed to have transplanted cells made from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into human patients, to have worked at Harvard, and so forth. It all turned out not to be true. He even admitted it. Now Moriguchi is back in the news. He has several more papers published …

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Stemage Stem Cell Anti-Aging Cream 2.0: Interview with Dr. David Scharp

February 1, 2021 / By / 5 Comments
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Remember Stemage? They are the cosmetic company with Kathy Ireland as their spokesperson whose anti-aging cream includes extracts from human stem cells. In Part 1 of this blog series on Stemage I gave some key background and raised some important questions. I also sent some questions to the company and now more recently to the …

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Trial of Stem Cells for Parkinson’s Disease on Horizon

February 1, 2021 / By / 3 Comments

Is a treatment based on stem cells for Parkinson’s Disease on the horizon? A Japanese team of researchers led by Dr. Jun Takahashi, professor at Kyoto University is reportedly aiming to start on human studies of an induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell-based treatment for Parkinson’s Disease (PD) as early as fiscal year (FY) 2014. In …

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Crash course stem cell training for docs puts patients at risk

February 1, 2021 / By / 12 Comments
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With all the excitement over the potential of stem cells to transform medicine, a key bottleneck is physician training. Just how many doctors in the entire US have years of real experience and training in clinical use of stem cells….hmmm, let’s see….I can only think of a few in the whole country. Yes, it’s really …

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The StemCell Bra interview with Howard Leonhardt

February 1, 2021 / By / 1 Comment

Remember the electric StemCell Bra? This innovation is hoped by the creators to grow bigger breasts for women via the power of electricity and stem cells. Could this work? How would it work? Is it safe? Are there clinical trials ongoing? Who is the team and what is the rationale behind this technology? I’ve emailed …

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